....totally agree about the eggs
Tim.Churches wrote:
Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Sorry.... didn't mean to dampen enthusiasm and imply that a satellite
> conference in 2007 was impossible to pull off....what I meant was that
> in general you need operating capital to be able to pick where you want
> to hold a meeting. In fact a satellite conference is preferable to
> imbedding a meeting in Medinfo because of the cost of registration. A
> low risk strategy is to find a willing host that can provide the space
> to meet and ideally food services that are within walking distance - a
> university or something like that.
No, I agree completely.
> BTW....the London meeting shadowed MedInfo and OSHCA was able to
> collaborate with the Medinfo organizers advertise our meeting on the
> Medinfo website and vice versa which generated a great turn out.
I think that those interested in OSHCA should organise a satellite mtg
if they wish, but that an open source workshop or some other meeting
under the auspices of MedInfo2007 should also be pursued. Let's not put
all our eggs in one basket...
